American military Aviation in 1938 was able to produce only 1,800, 300 less than Germany, and 1,400 less than Japan. ... (Overy 277) For most of the 1930's the United States traded as openly with Germany and Japan, as it did with any other country. Japan relied on fuel oil and scrap iron until 1941. ... The Americans upon declaring its Neutrality gave additional encouragement to Japan and Germany to in a way take over the world. ... This also led Japan to confront the United States in 1941. ...

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American society heavily relies on hypocrisy. ... Whites are still the supreme race in America. ... The Japanese were so loathed and such a threat that along with the bombs all Japanese-Americans and all Japanese residing in America were put in concentration camps, I mean internment camps. ... Young American soldiers were drafted and brainwashed. ... Americans need to use that atrocity and grow from it, unite, and learn. ...

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The Japanese were soon forced to retreat. ... The end of World War II was officially announced on September 2, 1945, when the Japanese surrendered to the American troops. American Home front during ww2 Mexican-Americans: They were discriminated against by many Americans. ... Many Mexican-Americans were abused and harassed by other Americans. African-Americans: They were also discriminated against by Americans. ...

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America, Great Britain and the Union of Soviet Socialists Republic composed the main Allied powers while Germany, Italy and Japan composed the main powers Axis powers. ... For America, there were many great heroes and many great military leaders. ... Emperor Hirohito and an ensemble of behind-the-scenes Admirals led the military strategy of Japan. Japanese fighter pilots employed a destructive war technique. ... Luckily for the free world, the Allied forces persevered and stomped out the threat of the Nazis and the Japanese. ...

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American military Aviation (AMA) in 1938 was able to produce only 1,800, 300 less than Germany, and 1,400 less than Japan. ... Japan relied on fuel oil and scrap iron until 1941. ... The real concern of American business was the fear that commercial competitors such as Japan and Germany would exclude American goods from Europe and Asia altogether. ... On December 6, 1941 the Japanese Air force led a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, completely destroying the port. ... This misconception also led Japan to confront the United States in 1941. ...

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While incidents similar to the Pearl Harbor attack were unconsciously expected by many Americans as they were watching in great detail struggles on European scenes of war, they still couldn't accept such a miserable defeat of their naval base. Just like Hitler blamed the German Jews for the defeat of Germany in WWI, Americans came to blame the American Japanese for the defeat of their forces in Pearl Harbor. As there was no evidence of the German Jews activities against their German government also there was no conclusive evidence of even a single American Japanese engaged in betrayal aga...

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There was a triangle of money flow, Germany would pay other European countries and they would use that money to pay America then America would then pay it back to Germany so they could pay Europe. ... The Japanese may have never attacked America if there wasn't another war that they knew we had to eventually enter. If Japan had attacked us and there wasn't a war in Europe then we would have had more resources to fight Japan. The war with Japan would have been shorter with less casualties. The League of Nations was formed; however America was never Page 4 a me...

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Even after the Pearl Harbor bombing on December 7, 1941 by Japan, the United States still had only declared war on Japan, not Germany. Hitler's mistake comes in where he "was not content to let a sleeping dog lie, " and declared war on the United State, due to their pact and alliance with Japan. Many experts today believe had Hitler never done this, that the U.S. may have only continued to supply British troops, and never send their own troops on European soil, thus allowing them to focus on Japan. ... Germany now had to contend with three principal opponents " America, Britain a...

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The United States remained neutral during the majority of the war, until they were forced into war by Japan bombing Pearl Harbor. ... After the American Stock Exchange fell, America sought out all of their foreign loans.6 This caused Weimar Germany to be destroyed. ... The Japanese launched the Manchuria affair, where Japan created a state in China. The League condemned them for this and Japan simply left the league and started planning for more intervention in China.9 Benito Mussolini, the dictator in Italy, sought to capture modern-day Ethiopia. ... If the League of Nations had acted on Japa...

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The most important causes of World War 2 were nationalism and Japan attacking Pearl Harbor. One of the most important causes was Japan attacking Pearl Harbor because before this it was solely a European war, but after Japan attacked the US naval base in Hawaii it turned the 'European War' into a World War and as the Nazi army got stronger the other European countries had to defeat before they got too strong to defeat and without it there would be no armies for the war. ... Nationalism was one of the main cause of the Vietnam war because The United States initially entered the Vietna...

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When German, Japan, and Italy first began making territorial demands, the US and other Western Democracies appeased and ignored the dictators, wanting nothing more than to avoid war. ... In 1937, FDR tested American opinion by making his famous quarantine speech. ... The American people would have nothing of it, however. ... In the end, his course would bring the American people to war on the side of the allies. A war that all Americans eventually felt was just, and needed to be fought....

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World War II was the most horrific war conceivable. Countless amounts of people suffered in that war while many others waited in fear for their lives and those of their loved ones. Each side had their own leaders and each leader had their own story, their own point of view of why the war was taking ...

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These such countries consisted of France, Great Britain, Italy, and Japan. ... The United States of America did not ratify or approve of the treaty (Widenor 24). Powerful opposition raged Americans because they believed the treaty was too generous of an action and approach on the war-torn countries of Europe. America had made their own separate peace with Germany in 1921. Between America and Germany they had settled peace through the Treaty of Berlin. ...

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The League had some weaknesses, for example great powers weren't members, such as USA, because the US senate didn't want America to get tied up in Europe's affairs. ... The Dawes plan had left the amount of reparations the same as stated in the Treaty of Versailles, so Owen Young, an American banker who headed an international committee, reduced Germany's high reparations payments from £6.6 billion to £2 billion to be paid off by 1988. ... The American secretary of state, Kellog, highly supported the idea, and 65 countries signed, including Japan, USA and Ru...

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According to Lindqvist, "this slaughter of civilians was made possible by more than a century of European (and American and Japanese) ideology that the extermination of other "races" was appropriate" (Lindqvist 276). ... What many people fail to realize is that throughout Hitler's childhood, the Germans exterminated the Herero people in southwest Africa, as well as the genocide by the French, British, and the Americans (Lindqvist 276). ... Just as the Americans desired to head westward to colonize, it was not their first intention to commit genocide on the Indians. ...

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Moreover, and just like in WWI, several alliances were made before WWII, which also contributed to the starting of hostilities: in 1934, Germany and Poland signed a non-aggression pact; later on, Hitler and Mussolini signed the Anti-Comintern Pact together with the Japanese, the main objective of which was to limit communist influence around the world (the alliance became known as the Axis Powers). Finally, in August 1939, Hitler and Stalin signed the Nazi-Soviet Pact, by which the two arch-enemies agreed not to attack each other and to divide Poland between them (though this second clause was...

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At first the League of Nations was made up of members, who signed the Treaty of Versailles, but the United States of America never joined and Germany and USSR didn't join at this time. ... The Kellogg-Briand Pact was made by French prime minister, Briand to renounce the war and signed by sixty-five countries include Japan, United States and Russia. ...

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Faced with a temporary improvement of the German economy by the Weimar Republic's ability to secure loans and investments (mostly from America), Hitler was forced to wait until economic conditions worsened to propel his Nazi agenda. In 1929 Hitler finally got his chance, the American stock market crash of 1929 affected nearly every nation in the world and German prosperity soon came to an end as a result of the Great Depression, vast unemployment and hunger that followed. ... Once the US entered the war after the attack on Pearl Harbor by Germany's ally Japan; Hitler declared war on ...

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